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...small space. Take, for example Bryant Park, the site of my lunch break last Friday. I was sitting at a green metal table with two of my fellow interns, Rachel and Danny. All of a sudden, we hear the aching melody of Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply." We turn slightly and see a man—probably in his late 60s, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses—round the coffee stand. He is dressed in a gray t-shirt beneath a navy-blue basketball jersey, both of which are tucked into his Adidas sweatpants. In one hand...
...should be a rising freshman. I turn 19 this November, at which time I'll be well into the first semester of my junior year. Most people tell me I'm mature for my age and that they would never have guessed how old I was. Usually, I believe them. But after my first day living alone in a three-bedroom apartment (the other two rooms in my sublet are empty for the summer), all I wanted to do was call my mommy. Yet while I'm not always immediately grown-up, I tend to learn and adapt fast, perhaps...
...first it might seem that the Circle Line boat would be the best way to experience The Waterfalls. I suspect that won't turn out to be true. Gliding past them on the boat is a passive experience, and will probably be a crowded one, a bit like trying to see the Trevi Fountain these days behind the day-and-night tourist scrum that surrounds it. At the very least, don't get on board looking for that sense of secular consecration and almost sacramental mystery that you could experience sometimes around The Gates at twilight. Approaching them on foot...
...when Maliki and Sadr, for whom Sadr City has long been a political stronghold, struck a peace agreement in mid-May, the situation took a turn for the better. Under the deal, Iraqi forces were allowed to enter the district to pursue wanted criminals, so long as they abstained from "random" arrests, and the U.S. military stayed on the outskirts. In return, Sadr asked his Mahdi Army to lay down their weapons...
...head first, his face a mesh mosaic of broken plastic, as if it were a crushed stained-glass mask. He lands on the adjacent building the shots came from, using his own artillery to dispatch several of his would-be killers, including one with a bullet that can turn corners. Alone and triumphant, he hears a voice from afar saying, "They were just decoys," and BANG! he's killed by a shell that enters his skull from the back and explodes out of his forehead. Then, like a missile shifting into reverse, the bullet retraces its path, returning through...